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When Mabel, a former Vaudeville performer, lands a job managing a boarding house on the ocean, she appears to attract a disparate cast of lodgers, all with unfortunate and dark lives.The lodgers include:?Two queens, old thespian friends of Mabel's who live in the basement with a peppercorn rent.?Therese, a pregnant Irish girl banished to England by her mother who assumes she is in an unmarried mothers' home in the care of the nuns.?Irene, a recovering alcoholic who has a sister Judy who, due to a trauma experienced during the war is unable to speak.?Arthur, an aged army major, had a son Ned who was shot for desertion.?Harry, alias Percy, a con man and felon who befriends the landlady, Mabel.When Therese moves to the Outback to get married, Judy follows and one day Judy spots a Kookaburra in a nearby tree. When the bird laughs, an unexpected, wonderous miracle happens.
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The Lodgers, Annette Creswell
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- 2021
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